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Commons Sitting of 28 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 983

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1. Preamble 7 words
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2. PRAYERS 5 words
3. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
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1. ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS 18 words
1. INDUSTRY
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1. Inmos 613 words
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2. Manufacturing Industry 687 words
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3. Small Businesses 328 words
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4. Small Firms Counselling Service 415 words
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5. Northern Region 637 words
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6. Genetic Engineering 182 words
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7. Public Purchasing Policy 561 words
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2. TUC 609 words
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1. Enterprise Zones 643 words
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2. Lucas Aerospace 281 words
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3. Black Country Districts 259 words
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4. Small Businesses (Paper Work) 651 words
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5. Post Office 453 words
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6. Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited 626 words
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7. Development Area Status (Neath-Resolven) 240 words
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3. INDICTABLE OFFENCES (TRIAL DELAYS) 492 words
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4. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 759 words
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5. SHOPLIFTING (ELDERLY PERSONS) 161 words
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4. BRISTOL DISTURBANCES (CHIEF CONSTABLE'S REPORT) 3,913 words
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5. TENERIFE AIR CRASH 3,233 words
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6. BIRKENHEAD (UNEMPLOYMENT) 674 words
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7. IRAN 369 words
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8. WELSH AFFAIRS 29 words
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9. DEFENCE ESTIMATES 1980 45,227 words
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10. USSR TRADE INSPECTORS 3,703 words

Written Answers (Commons) of 28 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 983

1. EMPLOYMENT
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1. Member's Correspondence 135 words
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2. Pneumoconiosis Compensation 220 words
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3. Health and Safety 855 words
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4. Pentachlorophenol 397 words
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5. Job Vacancies 87 words
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6. Unemployment Statistics 484 words
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7. Unemployment (Redundancy Payments) 77 words
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8. Barking (Explosion) 266 words
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9. Employee Activity Rates 415 words
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10. Unemployment Benefit Claimants 182 words
2. NATIONAL FINANCE
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1. Channel Islanders (Capital Transfer Tax Claims) 297 words
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2. Educational Charities (Value Added Tax) 44 words
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3. Widows (Allowances and Pensions) 103 words
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4. Herbicide 2, 4, 5-T 96 words
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5. Value Added Tax (Children's Wear) 90 words
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6. Sperm Whale Oil 47 words
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7. North Sea Oil (Tax Yield) 47 words
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8. Fiscal Drag (Additional Revenue) 89 words
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9. Value Added Tax (Educational Visits) 92 words
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10. Index of Industrial Output 203 words
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11. Teachers' Salaries 54 words
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12. Income Tax 85 words
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13. Foreign Exchange Gains and Losses 618 words
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14. Domestic Rates (Abolition) 87 words
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15. EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA (STRASBOURG SPEECH) 116 words
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16. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY 56 words
3. INDUSTRY
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1. National Enterprise Board 77 words
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2. Regional Development Assistance 41 words
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3. Merseyside 63 words
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4. London Chamber of Commerce and Industry 40 words
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5. West Durham (Job Creation) 94 words
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6. Nationalised Industries (Chairmen) 62 words
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7. British Steel Corporation 35 words
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8. Manufacturing Industry (Investment) 49 words
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9. Shipyard Employment Figures 73 words
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10. Development Areas 119 words
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11. Energy Conservation 79 words
4. SCOTLAND
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1. Fife Health Board 105 words
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2. Teachers (Pay) 113 words
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3. Area Health Boards 57 words
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4. Hampden Park Project 232 words
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5. Strathclyde Region 52 words
5. HOUSE OF COMMONS
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1. Members' Salaries 128 words
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2. Members' Secretaries (Pensions) 48 words
6. CIVIL SERVICE
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1. Members' Correspondence 81 words
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2. Members of Parliament (Salaries) 145 words
7. EDUCATION AND SCIENCE
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1. Scientific Research 292 words
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2. Palestinian Students 45 words
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3. Schools (Per Capita Spending) 79 words
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4. Expenditure 231 words
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5. Inner London Education Authority 64 words
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6. JURY VETTING 48 words
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7. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS 35 words
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8. EVIDENCE (DISCLOSURE TO DEFENCE) 228 words
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9. ROYAL COMMISSION ON LEGAL SERVICES 44 words
8. ENERGY
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1. Natural Gas 151 words
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2. National Oil Account 93 words
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3. Crude Oil and Refining and Tanker Capacity 90 words
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4. North Sea Installations (Safety) 100 words
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5. Fuel Supplies (Rural Areas) 115 words
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6. North Sea Gas Pipelines (Report) 65 words
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7. Coal Mining Industry 44 words
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8. Nuclear Accidents (Warning Arrangements) 67 words
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9. Conservation 53 words
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10. Oil Reserves 104 words
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11. Nuclear Reprocessing Plant Cap de la Hague 105 words
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12. Mineworkers Redundancy Payments and Similar Schemes 183 words
9. ENVIRONMENT
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1. Water Charges 54 words
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2. Local Authority Staff 107 words
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3. Planning Decisions 292 words
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4. Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 174 words
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5. Rates (Kent) 83 words
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6. Olympic Games (Alternative Events) 357 words
10. HOME DEPARTMENT
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1. Firearms Acts (Departmental Guidance) 44 words
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2. Criminal Statistics 394 words
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3. Immigration 332 words
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4. Deportation 152 words
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5. Murder Statistics 293 words
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6. Pucklechurch Remand Centre (Disturbance) 196 words
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7. Minimum Use of Force Tactical Intervention Squad 99 words
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8. Prisoners' (Sleeping Accommodation) 96 words
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9. Retained Property (Police Receipts) 147 words
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10. Detained Persons (Contacts with Solicitors) 74 words
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11. Football Matches (Disturbances) 203 words
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12. Operation Countryman 75 words
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13. Police Detainees (Drugs and Sedatives) 257 words
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14. Manchester Prison 91 words
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15. Civil Defence 567 words
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16. Prison Establishments (Pay Telephones) 107 words
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17. Voluntary Rescue Service 45 words
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18. Prisoners Mail (Censorship) 117 words
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19. Juvenile Offenders 156 words
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20. Cannabis 86 words
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21. Cap de la Hague Nuclear Reprocessing Plant 172 words
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22. Animals (Experiments) 119 words
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23. World Adminstrative Radio Conference 73 words
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24. Woolworth Store, Manchester 288 words
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25. Bristol (Demonstration) 127 words
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26. Polyurethane Foam (Fire Risks) 251 words
11. WALES
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1. District General Hospital (Bangor) 64 words
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2. Disabled Persons 121 words
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3. Livestock Population 72 words
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4. Redundancies (Caernarvon) 109 words
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5. Agriculture 224 words
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6. Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances 79 words
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7. Jobcentres (Clwyd) 234 words
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8. Single Persons (Housing) 40 words
12. FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
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1. United Nations Act 1946 (Orders in Council) 322 words
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2. Austria 63 words
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3. Afghanistan 74 words
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4. European Court of Human Rights (Channel Islands Cases) 100 words
13. TRADE
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1. Nationalised Industry Consumer Councils 82 words
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2. Copyright 199 words
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3. Patent Office 57 words
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4. Import Restrictions (Textiles and Clothing) 122 words
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5. Esso Petroleum Company (Retail Petrol Outlets) 180 words
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6. Insolvency Law Review Committee 66 words
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7. Upholstered Furniture (Safety) Regulations 244 words
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8. Fires (Smokers' Materials) 186 words
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9. Motor Cycles 81 words
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10. Oil Companies (Retail Rice Outlets) 193 words
14. TRANSPORT
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1. British Railways (Scottish Region) 201 words
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2. Advanced Passenger Train 75 words
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3. Channel Tunnel 103 words
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4. Lincoln Bypass 54 words
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5. British Transport Police 76 words
15. NORTHERN IRELAND
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1. Car Parks 99 words
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2. Glen Estate, Newtownards (Heating Appliances) 139 words
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3. Administration and Non-departmental Public Bodies 119 words
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4. Electricity Service 203 words
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5. Cancer Deaths 99 words
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6. Disabled Persons 352 words
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7. Foreign Firms (Failures) 79 words
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8. Housing Associations 90 words
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9. Pharmaceutical Service Rota (Belfast) 97 words
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10. Adult Training Centre, Lisbum 72 words
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11. C. P. Trim Limited 174 words
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12. European Agriculture Guidance and Guarantee Fund 119 words
16. DEFENCE
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1. Nuclear Policy 70 words
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2. Independent European Nuclear Deterrent 94 words
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3. Tactical Combat Aircraft 219 words
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4. Volunteer Reserves 90 words
17. AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
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1. Compensatory Allowances 87 words
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2. Quangos 2,644 words
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3. Cap de La Hague (Nuclear Reprocessing Plant) 69 words
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4. Agricultural Wastes 110 words
18. SOCIAL SERVICES
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1. Sickness Benefit 85 words
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2. Disabled Persons (Electronic and Mechanical Aids) 94 words
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3. Earnings-related Supplement 139 words
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4. Mine Workers (Early Retirement Scheme) 59 words
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5. Current Legislation (Staffing Implications) 107 words
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6. Invalidity, Sickness and Unemployment Benefit Claimants 66 words
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7. Supplementary Benefit Claimants 83 words
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8. Supplementary Benefit (Bedding and Clothing) 50 words
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9. Social Security Statistics 543 words
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10. Invalidity Benefit 489 words
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11. Mentally III Persons (Oxford) 348 words
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12. Sick and Disabled Dependants 222 words
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13. Supplementary Benefit Recipients (Rent Payments) 72 words
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14. Secure Accommodation (Essex) 188 words
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15. Pentachlorophenol 46 words
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16. Invalidity Pension 68 words
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17. Supplementary Benefit 171 words
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18. Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (Provision of Telephones) 123 words
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19. Elderly Persons' Homes (Staffing Ratio) 107 words
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20. Home Helps 129 words
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21. Benefits (Increases) 193 words
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22. Industrial Injury Benefits 110 words
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23. Benefits (Social Security (No. 2) Bill) 208 words
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24. Elderly Persons (United Nations' Resolution) 84 words
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25. Social Security (No. 2) Bill 140 words
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26. National Insurance Benefits (Child Support) 63 words
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27. Pharmaceutical Firms (Clinical Trials) 86 words

Lords Sitting of 28 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 408

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1. Preamble 22 words
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2. CHP GENERATING STATIONS 1,144 words
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3. RATES DEMANDS: BILLING 772 words
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4. ILEA: THE BAKER REPORT 1,404 words
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5. RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: DECLARATION VIOLATIONS 1,062 words
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6. BUSINESS 117 words
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7. TRANSPORT BILL 114 words
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8. INDUSTRY BILL 3,674 words
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9. DISTURBANCES AT BRISTOL 3,421 words
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10. TENERIFE AIR CRASH 1,498 words
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11. INDUSTRY BILL 16,446 words, 1 division
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12. INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL [H.L.] 25 words
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13. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 934 words
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14. COMMONS AMENDMENT 348 words
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15. COMMONS AMENDMENTS 470 words
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16. INDUSTRY BILL 12,936 words, 4 divisions

Written Answers (Lords) of 28 April 1980 Series 5 Vol. 408

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1. EARNINGS AND TAX PERCENTAGES 438 words
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2. COMMISSION FOR RACIAL EQUALITY: Mr. J. MASTRONTONE 64 words
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3. THE WORLD ADMINISTRATIVE RADIO CONFERENCE: REPORT 71 words
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4. SEABED RESOURCES: MANAGEMENT 194 words
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5. RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENTS: POLICY AND PRACTICE 342 words
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6. THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL MEETING 404 words
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7. TELEPHONE CONNECTION FOR SERVICE PERSONNEL 124 words
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8. MAJOR-GENERALS AND EQUIVALENT RANKS 182 words
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9. MINISTRY OF DEFENCE: EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND HIGHER GRADES 191 words
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10. SERVICE PERSONNEL STRENGTHS 204 words